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Brady Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$410k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 28
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$6.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Brady Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$410k36%
FY20246$162k33%
FY20231$50k100%
FY202224$500k21%
FY202128$445k0%
FY202028$405k11%
FY201927$405k0%
FY201827$415kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$795kReligion$402kPublic Safety & Disaster$395kHuman Services$305kEducation$255kPublic Benefit$200kHousing & Shelter$100kFood & Nutrition$95kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
NY
IA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
OK
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Brady Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Honorhealth Foundation$465,00070%
World Central Kitchen Inc$180,00020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$130,00030%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$125,00050%
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix$100,00060%
The Heritage Foundation$100,00040%
Friends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa$80,00060%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$70,00020%
University of the Cumberlands Inc$60,00040%
Phoenix Children's Hospital$55,00050%
Catholic Charities Community Services Inc$50,00050%
Justa Center Inc$50,00064%
Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research$45,00040%
Ville de Marie Academy Inc$45,00051%
The Fund for American Studies$45,00040%
Catholic Relief Services$35,0005n/a
Feed the Children Inc$25,00040%
Salvation Army$20,0001n/a
Habitat for Humanity Inc$15,0001n/a
Charity Global Inc$15,00020%
Spirit Church$10,0001n/a
St John Vianney Catholic Church$10,0001n/a
Smile Train Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brady Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHonorhealth Foundation: $465,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDiocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa: $80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Cumberlands Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Community Services Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJusta Center Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetBarry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVille de Marie Academy Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Fund for American Studies: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFeed the Children Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Global Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Brady Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Brady Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brady Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Brady Foundation

How much does Brady Foundation give?
Brady Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $410,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Brady Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Religion (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%).
Who are Brady Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Honorhealth Foundation ($465k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($180k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($130k).
Does Brady Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Brady Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brady Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Brady Foundation based?
Brady Foundation is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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